Jake Wright
@bcnjake.bsky.social
Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told.
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Jake Wright
@bcnjake.bsky.social
· Sep 27
"There's no ethical use case for AI in the classroom" has become my personal Carthago delenda est.
I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.
CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM
I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.
CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM
The Billboard Hot 100 right now is basically Taylor Swift, Christmas music, and KPop Demon Hunters.
All that's missing is an "All I want for Christmas" Taylor and HUNTR/X collab.
All that's missing is an "All I want for Christmas" Taylor and HUNTR/X collab.
Billboard Hot 100™
THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND ...
www.billboard.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The Billboard Hot 100 right now is basically Taylor Swift, Christmas music, and KPop Demon Hunters.
All that's missing is an "All I want for Christmas" Taylor and HUNTR/X collab.
All that's missing is an "All I want for Christmas" Taylor and HUNTR/X collab.
I had a better Thanksgiving spread in a literal hospital cafeteria.
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I had a better Thanksgiving spread in a literal hospital cafeteria.
It’s weird how I keep telling people that this year’s crop of fist years are the best I’ve had since Covid. I’m assigning more and harder material, they’re engaged in the material, and are doing incredible work as nearly as I can tell sticking to our collective agreement not to use AI.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It’s weird how I keep telling people that this year’s crop of fist years are the best I’ve had since Covid. I’m assigning more and harder material, they’re engaged in the material, and are doing incredible work as nearly as I can tell sticking to our collective agreement not to use AI.
Greetings from snowy St. Louis!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Greetings from snowy St. Louis!
Say “And with your spirit” one more time. I dare you.
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Say “And with your spirit” one more time. I dare you.
I’m not saying this to brag, but as someone who’s won my system’s highest teaching award, it’s amazing what good pedagogy will motivate students to do.
colleges have terrible pedagogy, and professors are not incentivized to be good teachers. some are interested in the craft, but I’m so tired of takes like this from academia that completely refuse to look in the mirror and ask why students aren’t engaged
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I’m not saying this to brag, but as someone who’s won my system’s highest teaching award, it’s amazing what good pedagogy will motivate students to do.
2Zoo 2Topia
Lawrence of Zootopia
zootopia impossible: rogue nation
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
2Zoo 2Topia
Look, everybody! Northwestern is run by a bunch of shitbird cowards!
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Look, everybody! Northwestern is run by a bunch of shitbird cowards!
Reposted by Jake Wright
While acts of bravery are welcome, any act of defiance that makes collaborators look cowardly will suffice.
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
While acts of bravery are welcome, any act of defiance that makes collaborators look cowardly will suffice.
As an academic and parent of a neurodiverse kid on the spectrum, I will fucking throw hands.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
As an academic and parent of a neurodiverse kid on the spectrum, I will fucking throw hands.
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Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hagueseth
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Throw that word at the father of a disabled kid and you better run.
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Throw that word at the father of a disabled kid and you better run.
"I must tell you that a horoscope which has been cast for my younger son shows that he will be pope, but I'm very much afraid he's more likely to be the antichrist."
That's it.
That's the *entire* letter.
That's it.
That's the *entire* letter.
Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"I must tell you that a horoscope which has been cast for my younger son shows that he will be pope, but I'm very much afraid he's more likely to be the antichrist."
That's it.
That's the *entire* letter.
That's it.
That's the *entire* letter.
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I am reading these now and they’re brilliant
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I am reading these now and they’re brilliant
I want to teach a class called something like "These books suck. Read better philosophy." On the reading list off the top of my head:
Plato, Republic. Basically a fascism manual written by an asshole.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. It's the dude's diary, not a coherent philosophy. Come the fuck on.
Plato, Republic. Basically a fascism manual written by an asshole.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. It's the dude's diary, not a coherent philosophy. Come the fuck on.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I want to teach a class called something like "These books suck. Read better philosophy." On the reading list off the top of my head:
Plato, Republic. Basically a fascism manual written by an asshole.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. It's the dude's diary, not a coherent philosophy. Come the fuck on.
Plato, Republic. Basically a fascism manual written by an asshole.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. It's the dude's diary, not a coherent philosophy. Come the fuck on.
"Fuck all the way off," says philosophy professor Jake Wright. "Life is for living."
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"Fuck all the way off," says philosophy professor Jake Wright. "Life is for living."
Man, she's not kidding around with those shoes.
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Man, she's not kidding around with those shoes.
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Having seen this, I’ve got to say, the KPop Demon Hunter fans need to re-discover Final Fantasy X-2, where you play a girl band who changes fighting classes by changing dresses and has no less than two concerts on the way to saving the world from a giant weapon.
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Having seen this, I’ve got to say, the KPop Demon Hunter fans need to re-discover Final Fantasy X-2, where you play a girl band who changes fighting classes by changing dresses and has no less than two concerts on the way to saving the world from a giant weapon.
Happy Thanksgiving from the cafeteria at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Hug your people today.
Hug your people today.
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from the cafeteria at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Hug your people today.
Hug your people today.
Derrida might be my hero.
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Derrida might be my hero.
Regarding (7), The Magic of Numbers, I had a grad school professor who was a logician and presented the class with an argument that there are no uninteresting numbers.
1: the basis of all numbers
2: the only even prime
3: the first odd prime
4: the first square
5: half of 10, our base
…
1: the basis of all numbers
2: the only even prime
3: the first odd prime
4: the first square
5: half of 10, our base
…
ruin your thanksgiving by reading new york magazine's take on mathematics
![The Ten Most
Ridiculous-Sounding
Math Classes Currently
Offered at Liberal-Arts
Colleges
By Jessica Pressler, Janelle Zara, and Emily Watkins Rachel Stein andAviva Shen OCT. 19, 2010
Every year, liberal-arts majors anxiously scour their college's course listings looking for classes that will fulfill their math requirement but aren't so, you know, math-y. Here's what they're signed up for this year.
10. Topology: The Nature of Shape and Space: "In geometry we ask: How big is it? How long is it? But in topology we ask: Is it [Sarah Lawrence
9. The Mathematies of Chance: "Most topics are introduced ina case-study fashion, usually by reading an article in a current periodical such as the New York Times. [Bard]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreieq6gmwmropzlvjkaaxk6d2smd4tv4dy7qar66uoyv6mhs6naa3fu@jpeg)
![8. Mathematics in Many Cultures: "Mathematical ideas are found in many cultures, among both literate and non-literate peoples. This course examines both mathematics and the role it plays in the cultures. Examples chosen from the mathematical ideas of present-day peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, as well as historic Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Islam and China." [Pomona]
7. The Magic of Numbers: "This course will explore the beauty and mystery of mathematics through a study of the patterns and properties of the natural numbers 1, 2, [and] 3." [Harvard
6. Models of Life: In particular, we will ask such questions as: How do you model the growth of a population of animals? How can you model the growth of a tree? How do sunflowers and seashells grow?" [Kenyon]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreic3c4ox53ouwr3ij3wsmvetmuknu2u2jai7hlvuigco3ahppeoabi@jpeg)
![5. Mathematical Origamist's Toolkit: "Topics include modular origami and how this models the creation of polyhedra and coloring of graphs, comparison of origami-axiomatic constructions to straight-edge and compass constructions, the combinatorics of possible crease patterns, the mathematics of origami design (circle packing, optimization), matrix models for paperfolding, spherical geometry, Descartes' Theorem, and Gaussian curvature." [Hampshire]
4. Mathematics and Narrative: "Many literary works (Arcadia, Proof, and Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture) use mathematics as an integral part of their narrative. Movie and television narratives such as Good Will Hunting and Numb3rs are also mathematically based. Nonfiction works about mathematics and mathematical biographies like Chaos, Fermat's Enigma, and A Beautiful Mind provide further examples of the connection between mathematics and narrative." [Vassar]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreigyk5tqjszw3fodt7ivmszq7mozpta55o7c552oyzpbqyphl26x7m@jpeg)
![3. Borges and Mathematics: "Jorge Luis Borges was one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Many of his short stories and essays were concerned with philosophical, metaphysical, and mathematical questions. The thesis motivating this course is that if we know the mathematies that Borges referred to, then we will read him differently, and we will read him better." [Bennington 2. Mathematics and Science as Art in Contemporary Theatre: "Playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Rinne Groff, Michael Frayn, and others have effectively explored mathematical and scientific themes for artistic purposes. Through readings and exercises, and by conducting labs and staging scenes, this class will gain some first-hand insight into the complementary ways in which science and art aim to seek out their respective truths." [Middlebury]
1. Meaning, Math, And Motion: "Quoting a charming articulation by Kinsman (a mathematician-turned-oceanographer, in the preface to Wind Waves): "To the beginner, science is a conversation that has been in progress for a very long time. Our collective work is to catch up on the conversation. [Evergreen]
This is why Asia is winning, by the way.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreihglx3kxej43i22j4vggyoutp2oyomivtmmvgp6uvslqemm4hhpci@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Regarding (7), The Magic of Numbers, I had a grad school professor who was a logician and presented the class with an argument that there are no uninteresting numbers.
1: the basis of all numbers
2: the only even prime
3: the first odd prime
4: the first square
5: half of 10, our base
…
1: the basis of all numbers
2: the only even prime
3: the first odd prime
4: the first square
5: half of 10, our base
…
Alright, everyone, here’s the deal:
I’m spending Thanksgiving 10 hours from my wife & kids because my dad is in the ICU after 14 hours of emergency surgery on Sunday. The road ahead looks positive but long. My Thanksgiving dinner will be from a hospital cafeteria.
Send me pictures of your spreads.
I’m spending Thanksgiving 10 hours from my wife & kids because my dad is in the ICU after 14 hours of emergency surgery on Sunday. The road ahead looks positive but long. My Thanksgiving dinner will be from a hospital cafeteria.
Send me pictures of your spreads.
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Alright, everyone, here’s the deal:
I’m spending Thanksgiving 10 hours from my wife & kids because my dad is in the ICU after 14 hours of emergency surgery on Sunday. The road ahead looks positive but long. My Thanksgiving dinner will be from a hospital cafeteria.
Send me pictures of your spreads.
I’m spending Thanksgiving 10 hours from my wife & kids because my dad is in the ICU after 14 hours of emergency surgery on Sunday. The road ahead looks positive but long. My Thanksgiving dinner will be from a hospital cafeteria.
Send me pictures of your spreads.
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[screams in humanities]
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
[screams in humanities]